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ittSSAll CTT HISTORICAL ItlSiOt
S£S£IIB0IES PARC
BAST ilEACOW, R t 11554
The LEADER Fr««port's
Official
Nsiirspapar
FREEPORT
zip Cede nsao
35th YEAR, No. 59
BALDWIN
ZIB Code 1IS10
MERRICK
ZID Code 115«fl
ROOSEVELT
/ i o C«Mf* llbTB
FREEPORT, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1971 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
McAndrews and
Emmanuel Elected
Doddxiifden at wotic on boat basin at Cow lieadow County Preserve, Freeiwrt. Use of the
22 boat facility will be restricted to grou|H involved in marine studies woriung with the Nassau
County Museum of Natural History.
June 14th is Flag Day. See page 4
"Hello, Remember Me 99
Joseph McAndrews, the school board incumbent, de­feated
Jomer Rand, and the Reverend S. Frank Emmanuel
won over Joan M. Young in the school board elections
Tuesday evening.
In a "gloves o f f campaign. Rand had tried to unseat
McAndrews who had been a board member for 5 years.
Reverend Emmanuel and Mrs. Young were battling it
out for the board seat vacated by Thomas O. Moore.
The final totals showed Rand with 2093 votes and
McAndrews with 2704. Young accounted for 2300 votes
while Emmanuel piled up 2557.
The school budget also pa^ed by 2432 to 2131 and
the Library support was also OK'd 2738 to 1796. The
third proposition which would have raised the minimum
distance for busing high school students from one and a
half mile to two miles was defeated 2212 to 2263.
Both terms for the newly elected board members are
for 3 years. The $12,188,527 school budget includes a
reduction of 12«/4 staff positions. The $394,823 library
budget would raise the library tax rate from 45 cents to
48 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation.
J.H-iCe -Liay Jtiaiii i i ds
50 Local Pushers
In a sjTics of arrt"s(s durinp,
Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday. .Jutic 2tid. Hrd and 4lh.
Fr«M"pf)rl fxjlue. in conjunction
wilh Na.s.sau County, narcotics
»M]uad, crimp prevention unit,
and organized crime details
arrested M men and women in
the Freeport-Roosevelt areas for
felony sale of narcotics
After almost a year of sur
veillance and undercover police
work, the law enforcement group
led by Inspector Henderson,
('apt Bob Snedeker and Sgt
rharU's Steuer ot I tic Na.s,sau
County force, armed with
warranis and a<-cumulated
evidence, arrest«'d and iHwked 39
individuals and 11 more were
already in custody on other
charg<!S Many of those arraigned
have prior records of arrests for
drug violation, prostitution,
burglary, or assault Pet Cap­tain
Dave Meehan, l>etectives
Julius Pearse and Sgt. Paul
Crawford, were village police­men
participating in the multiple
arrests.
Freeport Awarded Funding for Drug Programs
State Senator Norman Levy
has announced that the Narcotics
Addiction Control Commission
contracts funds have been
reappropriated for funding, fcnr
the fiscal year 1971-72. Four
Freeport drug programs will
receive the tolbwing awardls;
Freeport Citizens Committee
Agency (part of the YMithful
Drug Abuse Pn^ram) provides
for out-reach, individual and
group counseling, "rap
sessions", referral and
preventive serviMS, has re<»ived
180.000 for fiscal year 71-72.
Freeport BOC program dealing
with individual and group
counseling complimented by
referral and hot-Une services,
has been furled by NACC in the
amount of SS8.U7 tor fiscal 71-72.
Luther E. Woodward Schod, an
education, prevention and
rehabilitation service for
emotionally distiuiieddrug-using
youth, will receive $60,000.
South Shire Child Guidance
Centre, an ambulatory program
encompassing family and youth
counseling, will receive 124.000.
Senatnr Levy said "IT IS
PERSONALLY MOST
GRATIFYING TO ME TO AN­NOUNCE
THE NACC funding for
1971-72 since my staff and I have
held inumerable conferences
with NACC, the divisi«i itf the
budget, and the Senate flnance
committee in an endeavir to
secure this cffl^ifniir^g funding. I
had previously sponsored a bill
signed into law tm Mareh 26tb by
Gov. Rockefeller, making
available $4,715,238 in state funds
to local Nassau County Nareolics
Counsels m a matching fund
(Conttnaed on Bige 5)

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ittSSAll CTT HISTORICAL ItlSiOt
S£S£IIB0IES PARC
BAST ilEACOW, R t 11554
The LEADER Fr««port's
Official
Nsiirspapar
FREEPORT
zip Cede nsao
35th YEAR, No. 59
BALDWIN
ZIB Code 1IS10
MERRICK
ZID Code 115«fl
ROOSEVELT
/ i o C«Mf* llbTB
FREEPORT, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1971 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
McAndrews and
Emmanuel Elected
Doddxiifden at wotic on boat basin at Cow lieadow County Preserve, Freeiwrt. Use of the
22 boat facility will be restricted to grou|H involved in marine studies woriung with the Nassau
County Museum of Natural History.
June 14th is Flag Day. See page 4
"Hello, Remember Me 99
Joseph McAndrews, the school board incumbent, de­feated
Jomer Rand, and the Reverend S. Frank Emmanuel
won over Joan M. Young in the school board elections
Tuesday evening.
In a "gloves o f f campaign. Rand had tried to unseat
McAndrews who had been a board member for 5 years.
Reverend Emmanuel and Mrs. Young were battling it
out for the board seat vacated by Thomas O. Moore.
The final totals showed Rand with 2093 votes and
McAndrews with 2704. Young accounted for 2300 votes
while Emmanuel piled up 2557.
The school budget also pa^ed by 2432 to 2131 and
the Library support was also OK'd 2738 to 1796. The
third proposition which would have raised the minimum
distance for busing high school students from one and a
half mile to two miles was defeated 2212 to 2263.
Both terms for the newly elected board members are
for 3 years. The $12,188,527 school budget includes a
reduction of 12«/4 staff positions. The $394,823 library
budget would raise the library tax rate from 45 cents to
48 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation.
J.H-iCe -Liay Jtiaiii i i ds
50 Local Pushers
In a sjTics of arrt"s(s durinp,
Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday. .Jutic 2tid. Hrd and 4lh.
Fr«M"pf)rl fxjlue. in conjunction
wilh Na.s.sau County, narcotics
»M]uad, crimp prevention unit,
and organized crime details
arrested M men and women in
the Freeport-Roosevelt areas for
felony sale of narcotics
After almost a year of sur
veillance and undercover police
work, the law enforcement group
led by Inspector Henderson,
('apt Bob Snedeker and Sgt
rharU's Steuer ot I tic Na.s,sau
County force, armed with
warranis and aetectives
Julius Pearse and Sgt. Paul
Crawford, were village police­men
participating in the multiple
arrests.
Freeport Awarded Funding for Drug Programs
State Senator Norman Levy
has announced that the Narcotics
Addiction Control Commission
contracts funds have been
reappropriated for funding, fcnr
the fiscal year 1971-72. Four
Freeport drug programs will
receive the tolbwing awardls;
Freeport Citizens Committee
Agency (part of the YMithful
Drug Abuse Pn^ram) provides
for out-reach, individual and
group counseling, "rap
sessions", referral and
preventive serviMS, has re